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Zantedeschia elliottiana; photograph Njabulo Skhosana, CC BY-SA, via GBIF CC BY-SANjabulo Skhosana, CC BY-SA, via GBIF

Zantedeschia elliottiana (H.Knight) Engl.

Golden arum-lily; Yellow calla-lily; Golden calla; Yellow calla

Araceae · Northern Provinces

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Zantedeschia elliottiana (H.Knight) Engl.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (W.Watson) Engl.

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Zantedeschia elliottiana, photograph Njabulo Skhosana, CC BY-SA, via GBIFZantedeschia elliottiana, photograph Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZantedeschia elliottiana, photograph Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZantedeschia elliottiana, photograph 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZantedeschia elliottiana, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZantedeschia elliottiana, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 14 photographs ›

Summary

Zantedeschia elliottiana, golden arum or golden calla lily, yellow calla lily, is an ornamental herbaceous plant in the family Araceae. It grows from a bulb. It is said to occur in the province of Mpumalanga in South Africa, although other sources say that it is not found in the wild but appears to be a hybrid of garden origin.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Zantedeschia elliottiana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Zantedeschia

Zantedeschia is a genus of eight species of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants in the aroid family, Araceae, native to southern Africa. The genus has been introduced, in some form, on every continent other than Antarctica.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Zantedeschia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 7 of the 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNorthern Provinces · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-25.625, 30.375 · in the densest population, 8 records (89% of those in range)
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 6 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 26 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 9 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Njabulo Skhosana, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Zantedeschia 5 in the reference

Zantedeschia aethiopica Zantedeschia aethiopica Calla lily Photo: CC BY, Siphiwe Bright ZengeleZantedeschia albomaculata Zantedeschia albomaculata Spotted calla lily Photo: CC BY, Hildegard KleinZantedeschia jucunda Zantedeschia jucunda Highveld Golden Arum Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrew HankeyZantedeschia pentlandii Zantedeschia pentlandii Sekhukhune Gold Arum Photo: CC BY-SA, James DeaconZantedeschia rehmannii Zantedeschia rehmannii Pink-arum Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Calla elliottiana; Richardia aurata; Richardia elliottiana; Richardia rossii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
(H.Knight) Engl.
Native to
Northern Provinces
Wild records
9 in range · 6 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 2868837 is Zantedeschia elliottiana (W.Watson) Engl.; the page links Kew's Zantedeschia elliottiana (H.Knight) Engl., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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